The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …

Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables to unemployment are affected by financial factors. In Belgium, Italy, Australia, Japan and Spain, accounting …

creation and job destruction for university graduates, compared to other groups of workers. We find that the unemployment rate …

of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …